Chess Story

In 1942, after sending a manuscript to his publisher, Stefan Zweig committed suicide. Chess Story was that manuscript; Chess Story is his suicide note.

I’ve always been strongly opposed to dividing by two, saying things like: there are two kinds of people: introverts and extroverts; maximizers and minimizers; good guys and bad guys. All of these are false dichotomies designed to make simple that which is extremely complex; the brain after all is the most complicated system in the universe. Fr...